Events from the year 1505 in England.

• Monarch – Henry VII
• Lord Chancellor – William Warham
• Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe
• Secretary of State – Thomas Ruthall

• 28 June – planned marriage of Henry Tudor and Catherine of Aragon postponed when the dowry fails to arrive from Spain.
• Christ's College, Cambridge is granted a royal charter at the instigation of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the King's mother, refounding it under its present name.

• William Cavendish, courtier (died 1557)
• Philip Hoby, politician (died 1558)
• Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, politician (died 1550)
• Thomas Tallis, composer (died 1585)
• Christopher Tye, composer and organist (died 1572)

• George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, nobleman and soldier (born 1554)
• Robert Wydow, poet and church musician (born 1446)
• Sir Richard Pole, courtier (born 1462)
• William Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London (born 1451)